07 December 2023

Police linked to hacking campaign to frame Indian activists

Police forces around the world have increasingly used hacking tools to identify and track protesters, expose political dissidents' secrets, and turn activists' computers and phones into inescapable eavesdropping bugs. So we're trying to put as much data forward as we can in the hopes of helping these victims." AdvertisementSentinelOne's new findings that link the Pune City Police to the long-running hacking campaign, which the company has called Modified Elephant, center on two particular targets of the campaign: Rona Wilson and Varvara Rao. Rao, who is 81 years old and in poor health, has been released on medical bail, which expires next month. "This is one of the most serious cases involving evidence-tampering that Arsenal has ever encountered," Arsenal's president, Mark Spencer, wrote in his report to the Indian court.